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#40936 09/12/01 09:14 PM
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I've always used zed. Shakespeare used it: "Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter." (King Lear Act 2, Scene 2)

It's also called zed in Indonesian, so I assume that it's called zed in Dutch. It must have been the US that changed.

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In German, ...when giving ... a series of numbers, one should pronounce "zwei" (2) as "zwo" to avoid confusion with "drei" (3)
Certainly true when I was working in the IT industry in Germany 25 years ago. Caught me out the first time I heard it. I am sure I have heard and used it since with Germans without comment.

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Zed is actually® a bit reactionary, tracing as it does back to the Greek. Zee would be from the more progressive Latin name, ze, prononuced /zeh/ before the Great Vowel Movement©.


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Okay, what is >>intra-LATA as well as inter-LATA

LATAs are Local Access Transport Areas, which are geographic regions that roughly correspond to telephone area code regions. In the telecommunications industry, long distance telephone calls between LATAs are known as "interLATA" calls, and local long distance calls sent and received within a single LATA are known as "intraLATA" calls. Utilities regulations allocate the privilege of providing local, intraLATA long distance, and interLATA long distance services among the telecommunications providers, and whether you are making a call inter- or intra-LATA will thus affect who carries your call, how much you are charged, and whether you need to dial the area code or any access number or not.

For a discussion of how LATAs affect direct dialing parity (not likely, but just in case you are interested...) see In re Complaint of MCI Telecommunications Corp, 240 Mich App 292; 612 NW2d 826 (2000).




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Yup, definitely Zed here in Canada too (in both French and English)




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Where you get zee from?
A great stroke of forward planning by the US so it would rhyme with Vee in the song!


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A great stroke of forward planning by the US

Like unto the Great Lefties' Revenge in setting up the automobile driver on the left side of the vehicle knowing full well that, eighty some odd years down the line drive through ATMs would require the driver to use the left hand to operate them. Or either squirm around in the seat awkwardly, one.


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Or either squirm around in the seat awkwardly, one.

or emigrate to a civilised country, other.


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a civilised country

What? Blatant and systematic discrimination against a minority is civilized?


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